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(No Model.) A! AI DE' UALOUNE.

` TYPE CASE.

Pteggqdu 5, 1884.

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UNITED STATES PATENT rricE.

ALPHONSE Anonrnn DE oALoNNE, or rAnis, rEAn-on, Assienon rro LA sooinfrn DE TYPooEArHIo PAE rnoonni'xs EArInEs, orsAMn PLACE.

TYPE-CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentNo. 303,129, dated August 5, 18184l Application ilcfd March 7,1884. (No model.) Patented in France March 16,1883, No.128,370, in Belgium March lk", 1533, No. 0,1'90,

I and inEngzlnnd April 17, 1883, No, 1,954.

To all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that l, Viscount .ALPHONSE ADoLrHE DE GALONNE, a citizen of France, residing at Paris, in the department of the Seine, have invented new and useful improvements in Type-Gases, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to type-cascs having inclined drawers, in which the type are setin an upright position, vas described in Letters Patent of the United States granted to nie October 2, 1877, No. 195,806; and it oomprises certain improvements upon or modifications of such type-cases.

It consists, iirst, in a type-case having a series of inclined drawers, and divided horizontally into separable parts or sections to facilitate the handling, said parts or sections `neing constructed and arranged so that when set together' orassembled they constitute one entire case. It is found that the fourhnndred and eighty (480) different letters or characters which are required for general work can be conveniently distributed in. forty drawers, each subdivided into twelve compartments, each holding the type for a single one of these Aletters or characters; but these forty drawers with their contents make a body which it is very diiiicnlt to handle. To overcome the diilcnlty the case is divided horizontally, or

it ina-y be horizontally and vertically, the up per part or parts having the bottom inclined so as to conform to the inclined top of the part below, and being provided with supporting means for retaining it in that position.

tions in a plane extending lengthwise of the case and parallel with the inclined drawers. 5o A is the npper part and E the lower. Both parts are divided into iive compartments, containing each a tier of four inclined drawers, so that the two parts together hold the whole forty drawers. The bottom a of the top part is inclined like the top b of the bottom part, on which it rests. At the ends of the partA are fastened boards c, which have iiat or horizontal lower edges. They rest upon the strips d, fastened to the ends of part B, and 6o with them constitute the supports for retaining the part A in position. The drawers each consist of a bottoni, e, of zinc, a facestrip, f, and a series of division-strips, g, which are fired to the bottom4 e and to the face-strip f. 65 The projecting edges of the metal bottoni e lit and slide in grooves hin the inclosing wall of the compartment,` as 'shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 4. The type are set on endin the long narrow space between the division-strips 7o g, and slide down to the front of the drawer. To facilitate their sliding and to prevent them from separating or falling down, a roller, i, oi' heavy material is placed behind each row of type. Instead of a roller, an arrangement of 7 5 springs or other devices for pressing the type together could be used. Buttons or latches D prevent the drawers from sliding ont of the case by their own weight. Each lpart or scction of the case is provided at the ends with So handles C for lifting. Both parts are closed at the back. Access to the type or drawers is given onlyr from the front. In distributing the type the workman inserts them behind the facestrip f, pushing up the rowof type, which slides easily on the metal bottom. The division-strips y are cut away on top at the front,to give more space for the iingers of the worlrmen holding the type.

Itis evident that changes in detail may be go made without departing from the spirit of the invention-as, for example, forms, dimensions, materials, proportions, means for pressing the type together, dsc., may bc altered.

I claiml. A. type-case having a series ofinclined dravversy and divided horizontally into sepa-l] the bottoni made entirely of metal, and theserable parts or sections to facilitate the handling, said parts or sections being constructed drawers being supported in an inclined posiand arranged so that when set together or artion by grooves into which the edges of said seinbled they constitute one entire case7 subbottom lit, substantially as described. stantially as described. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my 2. The upper part or section having an inhand in the presence of two subscribing Wit- `2o clined bottom, the lower part or section havy nesses. A

ing an inclined top, and both containing tiers COMTE ALPHOYSE ADOIPHF- DE CMONNE of inclined drawers, in combination with J means for supporting the upper part above fitnessesz the bottoni part, substantially as described. HAYoLHE,

3. In a type-case7 the type-drawers having AUG. VENCK.

ries of division-plates fastened thereto7 said. 15' 

